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Re: Amiga 4000 on its way!! Now what?
« on: September 09, 2003, 03:06:14 PM »
My suggestion is as unique as the others, get buster11, rom3.1 and make damn sure the battery ain't leaking.

When it comes to quirks I don't realy know that many but heat is a bit of a problem in the 040 modells and the 5.25" bay ain't that deep so try get a short modell CD/DVD for it. I've also heard the PSUs fan can sometimes be turning the wrong way. You should hope you don't get one of the A4000 that have a fullsize 3.5" diskdrive as they make it impossible to have an extra diskdrive or HD in the other 3.5" bay aswell as they have a cut in the other 3.5" panel so even if you get a normal 3.5" diskdrive for it the panel won't cover the hole.

Other uppdates you would like to get asap is a gfxcard, a SCSI controller and a NIC. Question then is if you want to go the PCI way or the original Zorro way. PCI solutions are a bit expencive but it will save you some money on GFX and NIC's later on.

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Re: Amiga 4000 on its way!! Now what?
« Reply #1 on: September 09, 2003, 10:34:50 PM »
A RFmodulator for an A500 would surtantly work on any Amiga RGB port also the A4000 one.

I didn't have enough $ for a mediator solution to my A4000 tower project but I got hold of an prometheus PCI solution for under 35$ and it should support Linux also (at least I hope so, will see when my project is done).

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Re: Amiga 4000 on its way!! Now what?
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2003, 08:21:45 AM »
It was through a friend and no he don't have any more cause then I would get that one too I think just for the bragging rights of having 5 Zorro and 8 PCI slots in one machine. :-D

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Re: Amiga 4000 on its way!! Now what?
« Reply #3 on: September 11, 2003, 09:01:51 AM »
About the SEGA genesis pad I have one of those aswell and I'm pritty sure 2 buttons worked before I modded it. It have all the p lines in the cable so it was like christmas day for me when I opened it... now I have all 3 buttons working and startbutton modded to work as autofire. :-D

Also a SEGA mastersystem pad is stright forward and works as a 2 button Amiga pad. :-)

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Re: Amiga 4000 on its way!! Now what?
« Reply #4 on: September 11, 2003, 11:14:45 PM »
I know the feeling... My stepp into the Amiga world was with a new A600HD, after uppgrading with memory and external diskdrive I found the 40MB HD too small and while searching for something to help me in that department I fell over an incredible offer for an A1200 with 170MB HD, sure that would be the end of my spaceproblems I thought and I went for it! Sold my A600 and bought an external CD for it also but soon found out that 170Mb was not going to do it so saved every little penny I had for months and finaly I could afford the big step I was about to make... that day I bought a fat Amiga 200W PSU, a used Blizzard 1230 Rev3, a 2.5"->2.5"&3.5" cable and a 3.2Gb HD drive, the biggest they had and was in over 350$ but I had to have it! That was a fat jump and I lived happily with that system for a few years then I fell on good times and managed to save some money and though I better check out the bigbox Amigas and so I did and found a great deal in the paper but didn't know it at the time cause it just said "an old A4000 used in a commersial studie". Not knowing what was in store for me I thought 1100$ was a bit steep but I had the money and I was determined to at least look at a bigbox Amiga for the first time. It didn't take me long to get out the fat wallet and pay the dude the money and home I went with a A4000T, CS060 rev1, CS-SCSI, VLab Motion, CV64, 80Mb Ram, 4.2GB SCSI + 1.2GB IDE, SCSI CD and a Multisync monitor to go with the system. That was truly a sweet week, missed alot of school due to a cold *cough*cough*.